The Dickinson press., 1887-09-10
Over an Old Cow With a Bad Cold and
Sends a False Report to the Daily
Press That PleurO. Pneumonia
Has Broken out in Stark
County.
His Herald Hireling Copies the Lie
With Fiendish Glee and Becomes q
Tool to Injure Our Stock
Interests.
A Damnable Conspiracy Nipped in the
Bud and Stark County Farmers
Saved From Injury by
Prompt Action.
Indignant Citizens ut Mandan Hang
Indignant Citizens ut Mandan Hang
Editor Tuttle In Eflgy.
The Pleuro.Pneumonia Liar.

The PleurO. Pneumonia Liar.
The reports sent out by Editor Tut
tie to the daily newspapers and copied
by his Gladstone branch, stating that
Stark county cattle we're suffering
from pleuro pneumonia or some other
disease, created quite a sensation and
stated in the PRESS last week was
entirely false and calculated to do our
cattle interests great injury. No mat
ter what Mr.. Tuttle's object may
have been, it proved a direct stab at
one Of the largest industries of West
ern Dakota, the cattle business, and
might have resulted in quarantine
against "s had it not received the
prompt attention of Territorial Vet
erinarian Alloway. To say that the
stockmen were indignant is putting
it mildly us the shipping season had
just opened and cattle were fat and
healthy. Wilson, of the Stark County
Herald is equally condemned with
futile for publishing the false report.
Sundays Bismarck Tribune contained
the following which shows very clear
ly that the lie was conceived in the
imaginative brain of futile without
the foundation of truth:
Territorial Veterinarian Allaway
passed. through the city yesterday af.
ternoon en-route to Stark county to in
vestigate the report that pleuro.pneu.
monia had broken out among the cat.
tie of that county. The Tribune has
previously published the statement of
Deputy Veterinarian Reid that the
disease did not exist in that county
and it is gratifying to have his report
confirmed by DR.. Alloway. The doctor
sent the following to the Tribune last
evening:
RlcHARDToN, Sept. Sd, 1887.
There is no truth whatever in tho
report that pleuro-pneumonia had bro
ken out in Stark county, o can | as
certain that any stock owners in or
near Richardton ever entertained any
such idea. One cow was found in a
small herd of ten head, belonging to
Mr.. McClemcnts, that probably had
been the subject Of severe cold, the
result, us far as ! a ascertain, of re-
peatcd storms. This animal is now
almost entirely recovered, and no
stock in the county as far as known is
other than perfectly we'll and healthy.
The report originated as it must have
done, in Mandan, has wrought meal.
culable injury to the stock men of
this county and the territory general
ly, and means should be at once taken
to correct so gross m outrage on our
people. G. j. ALLowAY.
Veterinary Surgeon.
In addition to the above, the Trib.
une has received the following state
ment of citizens OF R%ichardton:
RICHARDTON, STARK Co., OAK.
WHEREAS, 1t has come to our knOwl-
edge that certain reports have been
circulated through the press of the
United States, and dated from Man
dan, Dakota, to the effect that plcurc-
pneumonia or other contagious disea'
ses had broken out in certain herds in
Stark county, c,citizcns of said conn
ty, do hereby testify that there is not
or never has been and foundation for
any such malicious reports.
Huan McCLEMESTs,
ID. j. DEFRANCE,
w. NJ. TAYLOR.
MIKE CALLAHAN,
WIN. SCHCNESFIR,
ALBERT SCnENIsTF1GER,
JAMES a. DEFRANCE,
"A. NoRDBERG,
w. +. JAMES.
When it became generally known il
| Mandan that futile was the author o.
the reports the Indignation of thu
citizens was so great that the edi
tor was hung in etngy. Mr.. futile
| we understand, strongly denies thu
c,''arge that he gave to the public tn
f,,so information, yet the peopl'
u.aro 'ished that he was guilty AM
Tnosd.v ~, >rning an effigy was founc
susnonied ove, the principal street o
Mapdan to which vas attached a pla
card bearing the t,'llo"'hs leeeh"
EDITOR TUTT.'E
Hung in Etfigy.
NEXT DOSE
Tar and Feathers, Sure!
Signed:
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
The people have placarded the re
sponsibility for the false report where
they think it belongs and it is a terri
BILE warning to futile that he doe:
| not own the whole country and mus
| be careful in future what he says ant
does. The action of the peopl'
shows the utter contempt with which
they regard him. 1t also shows hov
unpopular he is at home, however W
hone tlc lesson will urOye benelicia
to him. His branch paper is likely
in view of the above facts, to receiv
less support in the future from star
county people.
Notice Of Dissolution.